Heel-blank separator and former



D. PARKS HEEL BLANK SEPARA'I'OR AND FORMER Apr. 10, 1923 Filed Mar. 26, 1921 fnweniar: Dennis ar/{3.

DENNIS PARKS, or sr. LoU s, MISSOURI.

HEEL-BLANK SEPABATOR AND FORMER.

Application filed' March 26, 1921. .Serial No. 455,307.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DENNIS Burns, a citizen of the United States, residin in the city of St. Louis and State of issouri,

have invented new and useful'Improvements in Heel-Blank Separators and Formers, of which the following isfla specification.

This invention relates. to heel-blank separators of the general type illustrated in my prior application Serial No. 344,288 filed December 12th, 1919. g

The general object of the invention is to provide a separator with means whereby it may be guided in a fixed path for detachment from the heel-blank, and returned to a point within reach of the operator.

In a co-pending application, Serial No. 432,695, filed December 23rd, 1920, there is shown a machine in which assembled heelblanks and separators, the latterof the type referred to in application No. 344,288 aforesaid, are successively forced into and upward in a log-holder and at the upper end of the log-holder the end of the log is caused to travel in a curved path thereby successively separating the heel-blanks and separators from the log, and each heel-blank and separator is in turn delivered to the front of the machine by falling by gravity through an inclined trough into which they are delivered from the log-holder.

In an application of Mitchell and Parks filed March 26th, 1921, Ser. No. 456,025, a machine is shown which is adapted for use with the type of separating member shown in the present application wherein the separating member is'provided with a head and is uided by a slot in a race-way from the holder back to the point of initial operation.

The present invention is intended to cover the separating member for use with the machine last referred to. In the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of my improved separating member;

Figure 2 is a view in side elevation showing the separator in position on a heel-blank;

Figure 3 is a top plan View of. the separator; and

Figure 4 is a sectional view on the line 4-4 of Figure 1. I

The separating member shown in the drawing is preferably'cast as a unitary device and comprises a top portion or heel former 1 which as shown has a flat top 2 andtwo inclined side walls 3, 4 which project from one side of a separator plate 5 as indicated. more particularly in Figures 1 and 4. The top or heel-forming portion 1 of the device, formed by the top wall 2 and side walls 3 and 4, is hollow, the plate 5 forming-the closure therefor and being integral with the sidewalls 3 and 4 as shown. In its-position relative to the heel-blank, as shown in Figure 2, the inner face 6 of plate 5 is vertical while the outer face 7 is rearwardly inclined in an upward direction. Projecting outward from the plate 5 and downward and inward from the side walls 3- and 4 are two flanges 8 which, in the relative position shown in Figure 2, taperupwardly in a direction away from theseparator plate 5 on their under edges, more or less uniformly. These flanges are adapted to rest upon the back or curved portion of a decked heel and the tapered edge 9 of each is of such contour as will adapt the flanges to embrace snugly the'lifts of the heel-blank on the rounded portion and on opposite sides of the latter. The inclined side .7 of plate 5 is to compensate for the incline of the top portion of a decked heel which, as is known, is inclined relative to the face of the smaller of tread portion of the heel; so that when a number of assembled heel-blanks and separators are in a log-holder, the column as a whole will be relatively straight, and the breast portion 10 of the heel-blank will rest flush upon the breast plate of the log holder. Projecting upward from the flat top of the upper portion of the separator, is a head 11 provided with under-cut grooves 12 which head is adapted to fit into the slot of the race-way shown in the machine of the application filedof even date herewith referred to. The head 11 extends longitudinally and centrally of the top of the separator as shown in Figure 3 and the flat face 2 constituting the bottom wall of slots 12 is slightly cut away on a curvedline, as indicated at 13 in Figure 2, to facilitate the passage of the separator around the curved end of the race-way. Preferably an opening 14 is made in the central portion of the separator plate 5 to lighten the weight of the device as a whole. The flat sides 3 and 4 of the upper portion or former of the separating member are for the purpose of adapting the separator in its upper portion to conform to the shape of the side walls of the back-plate of the log-holder which is V-shaped in crosssection. It will readily be seenthat when the separating member as a Whole is placed on a heel-blank and the separating member and heel-blank forced into the log-holder the engagement of the breast portion 10 of the heel-blank with the breast plate of the holder, and the engagement of the fiat sides 8 and 4 of the top of the separating member with the inclined walls of the back-plate of the log-holder, will o'ifer considerable resistance to the movement of the separating memberand heel-blank through the log, and also tend to force the top or former-portion 1 of the separating member firmly against the rounded portion of the heel-blank on opposite sides thereof, which tends to correctly shape the heel-blank and also operates tohold'the assembled lifts in their true position in the passage of the heel-blank through the log-holder.

1. A separating device for use with decked heel-blanks, comprising a separator plate having heel-forming members projecting at one end from one side thereof, and a guide member on the'top of said device.

' 2. Aseparating device for use with decked heel-blanks, comprising a separator plate having heel-forming members projecting at one end from one side thereof, and a shouldered headonthe top of said device.

3. A separating device for use with decked heel-blanks, comprising a separator plate having Walls projecting from one side at one end thereof, heel-forming members provided on the inner side of said Walls at oppo- ZASlABQ site sides of the plate, andv a guide-engaging member provided on the top of said device.

4. A separating device for use with decked heel-blanks, comprising a heel-forming portion adapted to embrace the rounded part of the heel-blank, aseparator plate projecting in one direction from one end of the heelforming portion, and a guide member provided on the top of said heel-forming portion.

5. A separating device for use with decked heel-blanks, comprising a heehforming porti on adapted to embrace the rounded part of the heel-blank, a separator plate projecting in'one direction from one end of said heelforming portion, said plate having its inner side relative to its position. on the heelblank vertical and its outer side inclined, and

a guide member on the upper side of said heel-forming portion A separating device for use With decked heel-blanks, comprising a heel-forming portion adapted to embrace the rounded part of at right angles to the heel-forming portion at one end thereof and having its inner side relative to its position on the heel-blank vertical and its outer side inclined, and ashouldered head on the top of said heelforming portion, the surface of said top being curved'beneath the shouldered portion of said head.

set my hand.

DENNIS PARKS.

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